Dept. of Philosophy

Descartes, on a trip to Germany to see the wars, was caught (he tells us) by the onset of winter; having nothing better to do, and without friendly conversation and "untroubled by cares and passions" our philosopher ensconced himself in a warm room by the fire, using this leisure time to analyse everything he thought to be true and certain (Discourse, Part 2, 1637). Examining his knowledge, Descartes' Pyrrhonistic bent of mind after reading Sextus Empiricus led him to resolve to never ...

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Careful articles written by professional philosophers are a useful corrective to wikipedia drivel
http://www.geocities.com/thenietzschechannel/ Bilingual texts, and a lot more about Nietzsche.

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/PERSEUS/ Classical texts

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Elements of Style "This little book" ...